HER MAJESTY

Queen of Blood, d. Curtis Harrington (1966)

At the end of this cheap but enjoyable thriller, the green skinned space vampire is revealed to bled to death from a scratch. The hasty conclusion is that she must have been a haemophiliac. This wild conjecture continues with 'perhaps she was some sort of royalty where she came from, a Queen, maybe'. From such tenuous ideas are horror film titles made.   

WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

Series 1 and 2 title sequence from OUT OF THE UNKNOWN. 

IT'S TITO

2016 FILM DIARY, PART FIVE

From Bye Bye Monkey

01.05.2016 - 31.05.2016


Haunted, d. Michael A. De Gaetano(1976)
The Great Silence, d. Sergio Corbucci (1968)
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, d. Emilio Miraglia (1971)
The Incredible Professor Zovek, d. Rene Cardona (1972)
Blue Demon and Zovek in Invasion of the Dead, d. Rene Cardona (1972)
Anonymous Death Threat, d. Aldo Monti (1975)
Crystallization, d. Carroll Ballard (1975)
Night of the Seal, d. Jean-Jacques Birge (1974)
Solarflares Burn For You, d. Arthur Johns (1973)
Akenfield, d. Peter Hall (1974)
Bye Bye Monkey, d. Marco Ferreri (1978)
Rica, d. Ko Nakahira (1972)
Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer, d. Ko Nakahira (1973)
Rica 3: Juvenile Lullaby, d. Kozaburo Yoshimura (1973)
Eddie the Eagle, d. Dexter Fletcher (2016)
Flowers of Darkness, d. William Templeton (1972)
Angel Dust, d. Chuck Wintner (1980)
80 Blocks From Tiffanys, d. Gary Weis (1979) 
Flyin' Cut Sleeves, d. Henry Chalfant & Rita Fecher (1993)
NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell, d. Henry Cora (2007) 
The Man From Ganimedes, d. Juan Carlos Olaria (1976)
Night Of The Bloody Apes, d. Rene Cardona (1969)
The Mummies of Guanajuato, d. Federico Curiel (1972)
Arnold, d. Georg Fenady (1973)
Shanks, d. William Castle (1974)
Bug, d. Jeannot Szwarc (1975)
Pee Wee's Big Holiday, d. John Lee (2016)
Invocation of My Demon Brother, d. Kenneth Anger (1969)
Lucifer Rising, d. Kenneth Anger (1972)
Satanik, d. Piero Vivarelli (1968)
Sexy Cat, d. Julio Perez Taberno (1973)
Captain America: Civil War, d. Joe & Anthony Russo (2016)
Von Richthofen and Brown, d. Roger Corman (1971)
Aces High, d. Jack Gold (1976)
The Boy Who Turned Yellow, d. Michael Powell (1972)
Where Has Poor Mickey Gone?, d. Gerry Levy (1964)
The Fiend, d. Robert Hartford-Davis (1972)
The Astral Factor, d. John Florea (1976) 
The Bermuda Depths, d. Tom Kotani (1978)
Beyond Atlantis, d. Eddie Romero (1973)
The Devils Triangle, d. Richard Winer (1974)
On The Game, d. Stanley Long (1974)
Holiday, d. John Taylor (1957)
A Welcome To Britain, d. Anthony Asquith (1943)
The Night Caller, d. John Gilling (1965)
The Ghost Ship, d. Mark Robson (1943)
The Leopard Man, d. Jacques Tourneur (1943) 
The Seventh Victim, d. Mark Robson (1943)
The Insomniac, d. Rodney Giesler (1971)
Tales That Witness Madness, d. Freddie Francis (1973)

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE OF THE DAY

From the stupendously good Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki, d. Lam Nai-Choi (1991)

VINO COLLAPSO

The Grapes of Death, d. Jean Rollin (1978)

More aesthetically pleasing torpor from French auteur, Jean Rollin. The Grapes of Death is about a remote wine producing area in France where indiscriminate use of pesticides has poisoned the crop and turned everyone into scabby psychopaths. Only teetotallers and beer drinkers are safe. Various beautiful women find themselves in peril, some for a very short period of time. Breasts are bared, heads removed. There is a great deal of pus. 

The film looks gorgeous, but is essentially the same thing over and over again. That’s not a problem, but there are more interesting pesticide based horror films out there if you’re looking for something more generally stimulating. Transmission ends.     

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS

Lucifer Rising, d. Kenneth Anger (1972)

The occult + myth + pseudoscience + drugs + Anger = ART.  

INVOCATIVE

Invocation Of My Demon Brother, d. Kenneth Anger (1969)

Magick, Satanism, homoeroticism, psychedelia, a convicted murderer, Mick Jagger, a cat funeral. What more can you ask from a ten minute film?

HER AIM IS TRUE

Pam Grier lines up a shot in Sheba, Baby (1975)

2016 FILM DIARY, PART FOUR

From Revolt In The Big House 

01.04.2016 - 30.04.2016

Spectre, d. Sam Mendes (2015)
2001: A Space Odyssey, d. Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Dr Orloff's Invisible Monster, d.  Pierre Chevalier (1970)
Herakles, d. Werner Herzog (1962)
The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner, d. Werner Herzog (1974)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun, d. Werner Herzog (1989)
The Pyx, d. Harvey Hart (1973)
The Silent Partner, d. Daryl Duke (1978)
Hellish Spiders, d. Federico Curiel (1968)
Santos vs the Killers From Other Worlds, d. Ruben Galindo (1971)
Fury of the Karate Killers, d. Alfredo B. Crevenna (1982)
Blue Sunshine, d. Jeff Lieberman (1978)
Airborn, d. Chas Wyndham (1968)
Eyetoon, d. Jerry Adams (1968)
Film Form No. 1, d. Stan Van Der Beck (1970)
La Couleur de la Forme, d. Hy Hirsh (1960)
The Doppler Effect, d. Dan Agnew (1969)
Education For Death, d. Clyde Gerenomi (1943)
Beasts Of No Nation, d. Cary Jogi Fukunaga (2015)
The Gambler, d. Karel Reisz (1974)
Straight Time, d. Uli Grosbard (1978)
Top Of The Heap, d. Christopher St. John (1972)
Partisan, d. Ariel Kleiman (2015)
Lonelyhearts, d. Vincent J. Donehue (1958)
Freud:The Secret Passion, d. John Huston (1962) 
Shock Corridor, d. Samuel Fuller (1963)
Shock Treatment, d. Denis Sanders (1964)
Kitten With A Whip, d. Douglas Heyes (1963)
The Swinger, d. George Sidney (1966)
Lord Love-a-Duck, d. George Axelrod (1966) 
Brute Force, d. Jules Dassin (1947)
Revolt In The Big House, d. R.G Springsteen (1958)
Caged Heat, d. Jonathan Demme (1974)
Premature Burial, d. Roger Corman (1962)
Queen of Blood, d. Curtis Harrington (1966)
Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet, d. Curtis Harrington (1965) 
Voyage To The Planet Of Prehistoric Women, d. Derek Thomas (1968)